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Nonviolent Conflict Summaries

Below is a list of conflict summaries that discuss the history behind, actions during, and ensuing events of major nonviolent movements of the 20th and early 21st centuries. We are not longer making updates to these summaries, nor commissioning additional summaries.

Africa

Senegal: 1974-present
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The Anti-Apartheid Struggle in South Africa (1912-1992)
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The pro-democracy movement in Zimbabwe (1998-present)
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The Gambia: 1994-present
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Guinea: 1958-present
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Mali’s March Revolution (1991)
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Asia

The struggle for self-determination in West Papua (1969-present)

The Maldives – From Dictatorship to Democracy, and Back?

Aceh: Struggle for self-determination (1998-2001)

The Chinese pro-Democracy Movement: 1987-1989

The Indian Independence Struggle (1930-1931)
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Pakistan’s Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (1981-1984)
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Pakistan’s Lawyers Movement (2007-2009)
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The Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God) Movement: Badshah Khan and the Northwest Frontier in British India (1933-1937)
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Central and South America

The Mothers of the Disappeared: Challenging the Junta in Argentina (1977-1983)
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Chile: Struggle against a military dictator (1985-1988)
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Colombia: Opposing violent insurgents, social violence and a corrupt state (1990-present)
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El Salvador: 1944

Guatemala: Ongoing
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Eastern Europe

Poland’s Solidarity Movement (1980-1989)
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Otpor and the Struggle for Democracy in Serbia (1998-2000)

Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution (1989)
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Estonia’s Singing Revolution (1986-1991)
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Middle East and North Africa

Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution”, Kefaya, and the struggle for democracy and good governance (2008-2011)
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Egyptian Independence: 1919-22

The Iranian Revolution (1977-1979)

North America

The US Immigrant Rights Movement (2004-ongoing)

The US Civil Rights Movement (1942-1968)

The US Anti-Vietnam War Movement (1964-1973)
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